Meaning not yet researched.
Ellyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #994 in 1952.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #994 in 1952; #12,278 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ellyn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,278 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1952, at #994.
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Ellyn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 girls in 2025. Peak: #994 in 1952 · most girls in one year: 102 (1991).
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Ellyn, making it the 12,278th most common girls’ name of the year, up 3,699 places from #15,977 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 5 girls named Ellyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #994, reached in 1952. The most girls given the name in a single year was 102, in 1991. For comparison, it was #5,173 in 2015 and #1,043 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ellyn in 115 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1898 with 6 babies. In all, 3,836 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 744 babies named Ellyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 136 US girls were named Ellyn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 25. In 2025 that was about 1 in 229,610 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Ellen (276,029 babies since 1880), Elian (15,380 babies since 1880), Elin (5,204 babies since 1880) and Elan (4,331 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Ellyn in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,278 | — | — |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,977 | — | — |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,760 | — | — |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,902 | — | — |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,153 | — | — |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,517 | — | — |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,128 | — | — |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,604 | — | — |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,896 | — | — |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,332 | — | — |
| 2015 | 26 | #5,173 | — | — |
| 2014 | 36 | #4,128 | — | — |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,879 | — | — |
| 2012 | 29 | #4,872 | — | — |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,537 | — | — |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,457 | — | — |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,147 | — | — |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,204 | — | — |
| 2007 | 29 | #4,995 | — | — |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,595 | — | — |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,924 | — | — |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,194 | — | — |
| 2003 | 37 | #3,754 | — | — |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,099 | — | — |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,413 | — | — |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,585 | — | — |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,487 | — | — |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,431 | — | — |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,042 | — | — |
| 1996 | 47 | #2,639 | — | — |
| 1995 | 54 | #2,399 | — | — |
| 1994 | 60 | #2,217 | — | — |
| 1993 | 74 | #1,905 | — | — |
| 1992 | 94 | #1,622 | — | — |
| 1991 | 102 | #1,524 | — | — |
| 1990 | 79 | #1,816 | — | — |
| 1989 | 75 | #1,791 | — | — |
| 1988 | 67 | #1,844 | — | — |
| 1987 | 28 | #3,275 | — | — |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,792 | — | — |
| 1985 | 24 | #3,545 | — | — |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,208 | — | — |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,460 | — | — |
| 1982 | 35 | #2,656 | — | — |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,768 | — | — |
| 1980 | 26 | #3,243 | — | — |
| 1979 | 23 | #3,469 | — | — |
| 1978 | 33 | #2,582 | — | — |
| 1977 | 26 | #3,019 | — | — |
| 1976 | 24 | #3,033 | — | — |
| 1975 | 27 | #2,762 | — | — |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,346 | — | — |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,522 | — | — |
| 1972 | 24 | #2,834 | — | — |
| 1971 | 26 | #2,750 | — | — |
| 1970 | 27 | #2,664 | — | — |
| 1969 | 34 | #2,174 | — | — |
| 1968 | 36 | #2,005 | — | — |
| 1967 | 30 | #2,180 | — | — |
| 1966 | 50 | #1,591 | — | — |
| 1965 | 44 | #1,701 | — | — |
| 1964 | 55 | #1,539 | — | — |
| 1963 | 45 | #1,723 | — | — |
| 1962 | 54 | #1,530 | — | — |
| 1961 | 60 | #1,442 | — | — |
| 1960 | 82 | #1,201 | — | — |
| 1959 | 68 | #1,302 | — | — |
| 1958 | 69 | #1,278 | — | — |
| 1957 | 67 | #1,293 | — | — |
| 1956 | 74 | #1,213 | — | — |
| 1955 | 73 | #1,168 | — | — |
| 1954 | 75 | #1,142 | — | — |
| 1953 | 76 | #1,116 | — | — |
| 1952 | 90 | #994 | — | — |
| 1951 | 75 | #1,070 | — | — |
| 1950 | 77 | #1,043 | — | — |
| 1949 | 75 | #1,032 | — | — |
| 1948 | 65 | #1,106 | — | — |
| 1947 | 75 | #1,024 | — | — |
| 1946 | 61 | #1,090 | — | — |
| 1945 | 43 | #1,218 | — | — |
| 1944 | 43 | #1,209 | — | — |
| 1943 | 47 | #1,182 | — | — |
| 1942 | 42 | #1,232 | — | — |
| 1941 | 31 | #1,393 | — | — |
| 1940 | 23 | #1,649 | — | — |
| 1939 | 33 | #1,297 | — | — |
| 1938 | 22 | #1,663 | — | — |
| 1937 | 19 | #1,804 | — | — |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,070 | — | — |
| 1935 | 15 | #2,129 | — | — |
| 1934 | 17 | #1,943 | — | — |
| 1933 | 17 | #1,923 | — | — |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,896 | — | — |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,627 | — | — |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,342 | — | — |
| 1929 | 20 | #1,845 | — | — |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,256 | — | — |
| 1927 | 19 | #2,047 | — | — |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,928 | — | — |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,655 | — | — |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,339 | — | — |
| 1922 | 11 | #3,021 | — | — |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,673 | — | — |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,409 | — | — |
| 1919 | 10 | #3,063 | — | — |
| 1918 | 19 | #1,983 | — | — |
| 1917 | 12 | #2,606 | — | — |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,408 | — | — |
| 1915 | 16 | #1,990 | — | — |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,159 | — | — |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,025 | — | — |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,202 | — | — |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,484 | — | — |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,566 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).